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Monitoring Under Scarcity
From information to causal use in resource-bounded intelligent systems
Research question
How can we distinguish information that is merely present in a monitoring channel from information a system actually uses — and what happens to that distinction when useful monitors must compete for limited processing capacity?
Established
The protocol separates information availability from causal use across known ground-truth cases, reliably across training initializations.
Not established
Metarepresentation; generality to realistic architectures; an ecology of interacting channels; or any claim about biological cognition.
Next
Introduce genuine competition among useful monitoring channels under a shared capacity budget, while preserving the A2/A3 distinction.
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Published · 4 pages.
Archived research record: Zenodo · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22661563
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